Coal industry fires back at Obama remarks........(Remarks misguided and cynical)

UPI ^ | Nov. 3, 2008

[IrishMike]

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- The coal industry fired back at Barrack Obama Monday by calling his alleged remarks about coal being squeezed out of the U.S. energy mix misguided and cynical.

Mike Carey, president of the Ohio Coal Association, said in a written statement that Obama has been hiding his real agenda while "pandering" for vote in battleground states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania that also happen to be major coal producers.

"Senator Obama has revealed himself to be nothing more than a short-sighted, inexperienced politician willing to say anything to get a vote," Carey declared.

Carey said coal remained an important low-cost source of energy and a "key to our nation's long-term energy security."

The industry along with Republican candidate John McCain have been expressing umbrage over a January newspaper interview in which Obama reportedly said his plans for a cap-and-trade program to control emissions from power plants would push coal powered plants, and presumably the coal industry itself, into bankruptcy.

FoxNews said GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was in coal country Monday and told an Ohio audience that a McCain administration would keep so-called clean coal as an important ingredient in the energy market.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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[tobyhill]

These Union guys are idiots for the most part. Obama has been proposing policies that will destroy every industry with Unions, from Auto Workers to Medical workers but they still plan on voting for him.

[Safetgiver]

My problem, with both candidates, is that “clean coal” is a codeword for Destroy the Coal Industry. Coal is carbon; it is dirty. In mining, shipping, in processing and in burning. So what? It is cheap, it is plentiful and it is reliable. “Clean coal” is an unrealistic, unneeded and unattainable concept. Unless you want $1,000,000 a megawatt prices.

[divine_moment_of_facts]

Obama wants to destroy our coal production because it's one of our strengths in the World!

[Munz]

maybe just in time if PA picks up on it. We need to win PA.

[PapaBear3625]

PA does not have early voting, so there’s still time for a lot of mining-town families to hear about it.

[Fresh Wind]

True to form, the United Mine Workers issued a statement defending Obama (peace be upon him) and his cap and trade carbon tax policy that will put many, many coal miners out of work. It's just more proof that some union leadership doesn't give a damn about the rank and file worker.

[calex59]

The info was out in January. In my opinion the political consultants screwed up really big with this. They tried to say the San Francisco Chronicle didn't release this, when the realty ii, it was on their website the whole time. A simple web search found it.

sorry, but you are using the SF chronicle talking points. The tape was on the their web site but the information that was on it was NOT available via the transcripts of the interview. They left the part about bankrupting coal burners out of the transcripts of the interview and no one but the chronicle knew what was on the tapes. A "simple search" didn't find them, it was blind luck that found the tape.

Since the information was never released your statement about it being available since January is BS, either you are deliberately lying or you have been taken in by MSM talking points. Which is it?

[HereInTheHeartland]

“either you are deliberately lying or you have been taken in by MSM talking points. Which is it? “

If someone from the campaign didn’t listen to the 40+ minute recording; then they are incompetant, never rely on someone elses transcript. There are hundreds of paid staff plus thousands of volunteers.
And don’t try to cover for the campaigns missing this, you are covering for someone screwing up. That’s just unaccepatble in this day and age. This was a major interview by Obama. With the huge sums of money the campaign has spent; the very least they should do is listen to what he has said.

And don’t accuse me of lying again.